A frontline report on a people forced to face death from starvation or being shot in a perilous quest to obtain meager rations

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33477630

[can’t believe that it keeps getting worse, but it does]

Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jul 21, 2025

Over the past five days alone, more than 550 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to ministry of health figures. The confirmed death toll since the beginning of the war crossed 59,000 on Monday in what is widely acknowledged to be a vast undercount. Over the past two months, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed as they are forced to seek aid in militarized zones in a system mostly overseen by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a shadowy U.S.- and Israeli-backed group.

One of the deadliest days for aid seekers came on Sunday, when over 70 people were killed, at least 67 of them in northern Gaza where Israeli troops opened fire on crowds trying to get food from a World Food Program convoy entering through the Zikim crossing.

“The tank came, surrounded us, and started shooting at us and we kept raising our hands,” Ibrahim Hamada, who was wounded in the leg, told Drop Site as he lay on a hospital gurney wincing in pain. “There were many martyrs, no one was able to retrieve them. I crawled on my stomach just to reach a car to take me to the hospital,” he said. “I went there to eat, because there was no food at home.”

  • Balaquina@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 day ago

    So true. Since the US has threatened to annex Canada, I have boycotted absolutely everything American, including software. I’m not buying any of their shit AT ALL. It was a bit of a transition period for a month or two so did take a little bit of effort, but now I’m in a new routine and it isn’t difficult. I have multiple people in my life who are literally CRYING and having fucking PANIC ATTACKS over what is going on in the US, yet they can’t be bothered to mildly inconvenience themselves by not buying from Amazon, or using a Google alternative, etc. One person literally told me when I was still in the process of looking for alternatives “You’re just going to have to kiss the ring”. NO I FUCKING DON’T. It is laziness pure and simple.